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WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY (NATIONAL UNIFORM LEGISLATION) REGULATIONS (NO 59 OF 2011) - REG 201

Duties of persons conducting businesses or undertakings that install, construct or commission plant

    (1)     This regulation applies to a person who conducts a business or undertaking that installs, constructs or commissions plant that is to be used, or could reasonably be expected to be used, as, or at, a workplace.

    (2)     The person must ensure that the plant is installed, constructed or commissioned having regard to:

(a)     the information provided by the designer, manufacturer, importer or supplier of the plant under the Act and these Regulations; or

(b)     the instructions provided by a competent person to the extent that those instructions relate to health and safety.

Maximum penalty:

(a)     in the case of an individual – $6 000.

(b)     in the case of a body corporate – $30 000.

Note for subregulation (2)

Strict liability applies to each physical element of this offence. See section 12B of the Act.



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